This is a common question when it comes to SEO. There are so many expert in SEO field have different views. We can declare that this is one of the most debatable topics in SEO field. There is no specific answer to this question. All we can give is personal opinion towards the current situation for a website. Personally, I have explained a lot about link building and even tag it differently from SEO on my sidebar. Link building itself is one big topic that needs good attention in SEO point of view. I have written a lot of blog post about link building, backlinks, as well as SEO is all about backlinks and link building.
However, there are others who still believe that onsite SEO and good interlinking between pages are most important factor in SEO. Personally, if I visit a site that is referred from Google for specific terms, I want to see related links and precise contents. Matt Cutts ask SEO pros to treat search engine as human. Deliver data and links that beneficial to the visitors and it will help in ranking too. Interlink all the relevant pages with proper “anchored keywords or keyphrases” on each pages as it will help in ranking and SEO.
Personally, I believe onsite SEO including interlinking internal pages with proper keyphrases are the basic housekeeping. The better onsite SEO with proper contents and interlinks will certainly hold the visitors longer on our site. A small number of relevant backlinks with link building activity will do the magic based on competition level. Again, when we compete with the well SEOed sites that exists for years with thousands of internal pages well linked and adding new contents daily, we need some extra magic. This is where link building comes handy. So, I would say 90% offsite SEO (backlinks) and 10% onsite SEO importance level shares here. What do you think?
Website optimization is a must for your online business.
WowI’ve yet to think about the plainly simple ways Google worked in. The truth of the affair is that Google “indexes” your page multiple times, it takes a metric tonne of due effort on your part to get your page to become interesting to Google. This will add to my knowledge of Google!
I think it should be balance but on page optimization should be prioritized first. It is simply because its too difficult to apply off page when there is problem with the on-page optimization part.
Agreed. Onpage should give importance at the beginning. Bad onpage will flush away a lot of potential clients with best offpage.
U really inspire me, new blogger who need learn alot..
Good Luck My Friend
Thanks Ray. I wish you all the best for 2010 too.
you are my mentor atniz… but i thought that onpage SEO is more valuable than offpage..
Thanks Firdaus. Onpage is important but offsite is more important.
hello Atniz. it’s a long time for me waiting for your new post. It’s great to see you come back.
and yesterday when i tried to visit your site, i saw there’s a down server or something so i can’t found your site. Maybe you should fix this, because i have faced this twice.
Good Luck for you!
Thanks for informing. I will keep track of this site performance checking tools. Maybe, it is time to go for upgrade.
Our team usually start on onsite before offsite. Usually you don’t need a lot of offsite when the onsite process is healthy and successful.
We always should start with onsite before hitting offsite. For long term, offsite will be very helpful.
I will vote for on page SEO….
I have many websites with little or no content but having a PR of 2-4…I think it happens due to their backlinks.
Content alone has the power to increase your PR upto 8 as I have seen.
Thanks
TC
Keep posting
Wow! PR8 is something that is astronomical for new bloggers. Content will help to get natural quality backlinks.
I think it is should fifty-fifty for both onsite and offsite.
There are many onsite factor involved compare to offsite. Measuring the checklist, there could be a limit to onsite but there are no limit to offsite which is link building. So, as time goes offsite grows larger and it can reach more than 90%.
I don’t believe it matters so much if SEO is done onsite or offsite but if there is clear communication of the companies wants/needs and products/services they offer.
Clear communication is part of customer service but onsite and offsite SEO is to attract google bots which is not human.